Saverio Silli

Architect, Product Designer, Digital Fabrication specialist, Educator

Vice Director, Fablab O Shanghai

Assistant Research Fellow, Tongji University, College of Design & Innovation

Graduated in architecture in Roma Tre University, Saverio Silli worked as an architect, while pursuing the academic career as a lecturer in Roma Tre’s School of Architecture, for the classes “Visual Communication Design” and “Graphic Representation Methods”.

He has been an active member of Italian’s maker community since 2012, giving birth to the first two Fablabs in Rome. In 2015 he moved to Milan to enroll in the Fab Academy course directed by Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms.

After graduation as a Digital Fabrication Specialist he became the local instructor for Fab Academy in Fablab WOMA in Paris, France, and since December 2016 he is the Director of Courses at Fablab O Shanghai and Assistant Research Fellow in Tongji University’s College of Design and Innovation in Shanghai, working as an instructor and developing new classes for the STEAM education.

He has organized digital fabrication workshops in Rome, Milan, Paris, Seoul, Shenzhen, Xian, Boston and he is an active member of the international fablab network.